Month: September 2022

POLLEN ASSIST. “The results of the model show pollen grains of masses up to and including the mass of maize pollen undergo significant electrical forces, with the strong electric field between flower and bee more influential than gravity.” https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk View in LinkedIn

EXTRA LIFT. “Pollen readily moves against gravitational forces, both from plant to bee and from bee to plant under the influence of electrical forces.” https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk View in LinkedIn

STICKY POLLEN. “This simulation highlights the non-random and organised directed trajectory of pollen grains under electrostatic forces.” https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk View in LinkedIn

QUESTIONS. “Are plants morphologically and physiologically adapted to increase or take advantage of these electrostatic effects? Do some flower species actively generate or control the structure and dynamics of the electric field surrounding them?” https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk View in LinkedIn

“FEELINGS are firmly planted in our nervous systems, where they describe—quite graphically, with the help of three-dimensional maps—the state of life within our bodies. The notion that body and brain are separate is false.” (The extraordinary Professor Antonio Damasio). https://lnkd.in/d7-nPraT View in LinkedIn

The portal gate into old town Girona. View in LinkedIn

NEW LANGUAGE. “Are floral electric fields adapted, much like colours and fragrances are, to signal resource provisioning to bees, or their readiness for pollination?” https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk View in LinkedIn

OLD LINKS. “Electrostatics and electroreception are likely to be a bona fide part of the multiple co-evolutionary adaptations between plants and their pollinators.” https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk View in LinkedIn

NEW FIELD. “As a recently defined field, there is still a vast amount that is unknown in the electrical ecology of pollination, each from the perspectives of the bee the flower and the electric field.” https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk View in LinkedIn

CONFOUNDERS. “High humidity, for example, leads to the formation of moist films on surfaces which prevent charge build up, and a dense rainforest canopy acts like a Faraday cage, negating the influence of the atmospheric electric field at ground level, possibly preventing the formation of floral electric fields altogether.” https://lnkd.in/dz2UJCDk View in LinkedIn